TMPEnc - audio cuts out at 1m42s when encoding 2gig+ videos

[darkelf]

Any help would be appreciated.

Current config:

Athlon 1gig
768meg
2-7200rpm HDD on separate ATA 100 controllers
ATI AIW 8meg AGP card
Windows 2000 using WDM/VfW wrapper

I have perfect VCD-compliant (352x240, NTSC) huffy-AVI files as my sources.

It never fails. On my machine if I attempt to encode ANY avi file (whether raw YUV or huffy211) that is larger than 2gig (roughly 20min) the audio ALWAYS cuts out at EXACTLY 1m42s.

My interm solution is to create AVI files that are less than this size, encode them individually, then mux them together. Works fine for most videoz less than an hour. Kind-of a PITA tho. And this introduces some sync issues the more splices I make.

Has anybody ever seen something like this? I am trying to encode standard VCD compliant MPEG-1 files. Frameserving from Vdub doesn't work either!

I have not tried using one LSX or Panasonic encoders, yet. I'm going for TMPGenc's supposed better quality (and the fact that it's free doesn't hurt either). I will give them a try soon, as I have exhausted other options.

Any suggestions would be GREATLY APPRECIATED.

[mikerios]

is the drive you are encoding to fat32 or ntfs volume?

[darkelf]

All partitions use NTFS.

I have been able to make 40+ gig single-file AVI-huffy captures.
The AVI files have no sync issues at all.

I have also experimented with using multisegment captures, as well as re-saving the 40+gig AVI file into smaller chunks in order to allow TMPGenc to encode it without the sound issues. This is the PITA part. It would be so much easier to cap to a single AVI file (which works great) and frameserve out to TMPGenc in one shot.

The restriction appears to be more closely related to time. Something in the range of 20mins. I can use uncompressed YUV AVI files that are MUCH larger than 2gig but runtime is shorter than ~20min. These will encode with TMPGenc with no problems.

Again, I have not used either the Panasonic or LSX encoder, but I have not yet heard anything that should keep me from using 20min+ AVI samples as my sources.

[Fred©]

Make sure you do not have setup system to start standby or suspend mode after 20 minutes... Thats can be the problem!

Fred©

[darkelf]

I checked my Power settings. I have APM disabled in the BIOS, and I don't have the new power management stuff in the BIOS either.

On my machine I have all of the following set to NEVER:

Turn off monitor
Turn off hard disks
System standby
System hibernates

This issue seems to be a problem with TMPGenc on my machine. I am encoding some samples using the Panasonic and LSX encoders now. If they give the same results I must assume that it is something with my machine?

[Mirror_Image]

Which version of TMPGEnc are you using?

[darkelf]

I have used v2.51, v2.52, and v2.53. I have also used v2.0 and the older v1.2 with the same results.